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From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: A moderator's liability (was flack about rec.humor.funny)
Message-ID: <1989Feb10.034157.25972@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 10 Feb 89 03:41:57 GMT

In article <2559@kalliope.rice.edu> phil@Rice.edu (William LeFebvre) writes:
>>...."This violates the spirit of Usenet."
>
>Let's face it:  Usenet is changing.  The original "spirit of Usenet" may
>very easily get lost in the ocean of new subscribers.

Those of us who remember what Usenet was like six or seven years ago
tend to feel that this happened long ago, and that the johnny-come-latelies
whining about the loss of "the spirit of Usenet" don't know what they're
talking about.
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The Earth is our mother;       |     Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
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